COVID Broke the Rules of Virus Evolution
In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that ...
5 years after COVID, Americans are split on whether it's still a threat
Pew Research Center conducted a survey to gauge Americans’ views on the current COVID risk and how the pandemic was handled.
Kennedy openly targets childhood vaccine schedule as Texas measles outbreak approaches 100 patients
The deepening measles outbreak is a direct result of decades of anti-vaccine disinformation peddled by Kennedy and his fascistic co-conspirators.
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green: States Must Prepare Now for Potentially ‘Devastating’ Infectious Diseases, Health Funding Cuts
At a U.S. News health forum, the physician-governor said that travel restrictions could be needed if measles or bird flu outbreaks ‘explode.’ ...
Why the Texas measles outbreak was ‘inevitable’
An outbreak of measles is wreaking havoc in the South Plains region of Texas, where nearly 60 children have been confirmed to ...
CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus and measles outbreaks and other public health emergencies
The CDC was instrumental in eradicating smallpox, identifying the causes of HIV and encouraging Americans to get the COVID-19 ...
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Learn COVID pandemic lessons — before it’s too late
Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, public weariness and irresponsible politics are hampering an effective ...
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WHO chief urges pandemic accord action after US withdrawal
The head of the World Health Organization insisted on Monday it was "now or never" to strike a landmark global accord on ...
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Trump wants to pull the US out of the World Health Organization again. Here's what may happen next
In July 2020, several months after WHO declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic and as cases surged globally, Trump’s administration officially notified U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that ...
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Physician Senators, What Have You Done?
Joseph V. Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA, is a survivor of gun violence, a trauma surgeon, and executive vice chair of surgery at Johns ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as Trump’s HHS secretary and the fascist assault on public health
The confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Trump’s Health Secretary marks a critical milestone in the deepening war on ...
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Polio survivor Mitch McConnell sole GOP Senator to vote against confirmation of RFK Jr.
The U.S. Senate voted to confirm vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s health secretary five years after the start of a global pandemic.